Publications: Related to DEEPsem, ISOGRAM projects; Software and Data: Picking Apart Story Salads, Query-focused scenario construction.
Research Experience
Research Projects: DEEPsem (Deep Natural Language Understanding with Probabilistic Logic and Distributional Similarity), ISOGRAM (Inference with Structured Objects Representing Graded Meaning), Research on Narrative Schemas and Scripts.
Background
Research Interests: Polysemous words, computational semantics; Professional Field: Computational Linguistics; Brief Introduction: A professor in the Linguistics and CS departments at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Miscellany
Contact Information: Email kerk@umass.edu; Office Hours: Fall 2025 by email appointment.